Student Activities/Organizations

One of Brenda Sweeten’s major concerns going into holiday breaks is what some students have or don’t have planned.

Sweeten is the adviser of the University of North Texas student group PUSH, which is an organization for foster care alumni — current UNT students who lived in foster care at some point in their youth. While some were adopted and have families, others aged out of the foster care system at age 18 and don’t have anywhere to go for the holidays.

Sweeten will host a Thanksgiving meal for these students, their spouses and children at her home tonight.

Student government associations at Sam Houston State University and the University of North Texas issued resolutions this month in support of Texas Central Railway's proposal to build a high-speed rail line from Dallas to Houston.

Both organization's resolutions emphasized that the service would allow students to commute to campus and access professional development opportunities in Dallas and Houston, according to a press release from the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP). The association has a campaign underway to recruit "the next generation of transportation leaders."

One of Brenda Sweeten’s major concerns going into holiday breaks is what some students have or don’t have planned.

Sweeten is the adviser of the University of North Texas student group PUSH, which is an organization for foster care alumni — current UNT students who lived in foster care at some point in their youth. While some were adopted and have families, others aged out of the foster care system at age 18 and don’t have anywhere to go for the holidays.

Sweeten will host a Thanksgiving meal for these students, their spouses and children at her home tonight.

Ramiro Luna can envision a day when immigrant mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters work and live in the United States without fear of deportation.

But if that doesn’t seem realistic right now, Luna doesn’t mind.

He’s used to being called a Dreamer.

“This is not political. It’s personal,” said Luna, a co-founder of the North Texas Dream Team, an activist group made up mostly of American-raised children of illegal immigrants — college students and graduates — who have pushed for immigration reform since about 2009.

This weekend, the University of North Texas is hosting an electronic music festival that promises to reshape the common perceptions of computer-made music.

Graduate students from five colleges will perform original “electroacoustic” works on Friday and Saturday as part of the free 14th annual Electric LaTex festival.

Don’t mistake this event for a fist-pumping rave — it’s more a showcase of electronic sound design. Or as Andrew May, director of UNT’s Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), describes it, “making music with ghosts.”